On the Boundary - A Life Remembered

The life story of a German-American scholar deeply involved, over several decades, in evolving intellectual trends and movements and profoundly affected by successive geopolitical events and calamities.

List of contents

Preface
On The Boundary: A Life Remembered
Appendix A: "Sehnsuch Dorthin": A Response to Friends
Appendix B: Reason and Dialogue: My Road to Intercultural Studies
Appendix C: Interview: Joseph Camilleri with Fred Dallmayr
Index
About the Author

About the author

Fred Dallmayr is Packey J. Dee Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. Born in Ulm, Germany, in 1928 he grew up in Augsburg, received a doctorate in law at the University of Munich in 1955 and a PhD in political science from Duke University in 1960. He specializes in modern and contemporary political philosophy, comparative philosophy, and intercultural studies. He has published some 40 books, 18 edited books, 140 book chapters, and some 200 journal articles.

Summary

The life story of a German-American scholar deeply involved, over several decades, in evolving intellectual trends and movements and profoundly affected by successive geopolitical events and calamities.

Product details

• Authors: Fred Dallmayr, Dallmayr Fred
• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780761869566
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-6956-6
• No. of pages: 142
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / General, Biography: general, Philosophy, Memoirs, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / General, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Translation & interpretation, Topics in philosophy, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Translation and interpretation, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs